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Gabriel Biel

1418 - 1495

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Gabriel Biel (German: [biːl]; 1420 to 1425 – 7 December 1495) was a German scholastic philosopher and member of the Canons Regular of the Congregation of Windesheim, who were the clerical counterpart to the Brethren of the Common Life. Biel was born in Speyer and died in Einsiedel near Tübingen. In 1432 he was ordained to the priesthood and entered Heidelberg University to obtain a baccalaureate. He succeeded academically and became an instructor in the faculty of the arts for three years, until he pursued a higher degree at the University of Erfurt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriel Biel is the 1,023rd most popular philosopher (down from 944th in 2019), the 3,912th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,398th in 2019) and the 126th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gabriel Biel ranks 1,023 out of 1,267. Before him are Jerzy Żuławski, Colotes, Merab Mamardashvili, Chinmayananda Saraswati, Simón Rodríguez, and Lysander Spooner. After him are Anselm of Laon, Ivan Aksakov, Arulenus Rusticus, Michael Oakeshott, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and Joachim Camerarius.

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Among people born in 1418, Gabriel Biel ranks 11. Before him are Anne of Cyprus, Agostino di Duccio, Eric II, Duke of Pomerania, Catherine Karlsdotter, Peter II, Duke of Brittany, and Isotta Nogarola.  Among people deceased in 1495, Gabriel Biel ranks 16. Before him are Elizabeth Tudor, Cosimo Tura, Vlad Călugărul, Jacob Sprenger, Frederick III, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Pedro González de Mendoza.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gabriel Biel ranks 3,914 out of 7,253. Before him are Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926), Werner Klemperer (1920), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), and Rudi Fischer (1912). After him are Joshua Kimmich (1995), Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824), Albert Brülls (1937), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), Johann von Werth (1591), and Ulrich Biesinger (1933).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Gabriel Biel ranks 126. Before him are Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Paul Deussen (1845), Karl Groos (1861), and Hermann Usener (1834). After him are Joachim Camerarius (1500), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Justus Möser (1720), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Carl Dahlhaus (1928), and Heymann Steinthal (1823).

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